Today, we are announcing the upcoming availability of an exciting new feature in the Power BI service: we are giving dataset owners full control over the scheduled cache refresh cadence of their DirectQuery and live connection datasets.

It’s been another busy month for the Power BI team. Each week, we’ve released updates to the Power BI service, rolling out new features and improving existing. Worried you missed something? Fear not! Below, we’ll recap all the features we’ve released in February.

As you probably know, the Power BI service is updated weekly with fixes, updates, and new features. When we release major features in the service, we always to make sure to release a coinciding blog post, so you can stay up-to-date with the latest features in the service. Going forward, in addition to these posts for individual features, we’ll be posting monthly feature summaries for the Power BI service, similar to the posts you know and love for Power BI Desktop. So, without further ado, here’s the complete list of January updates in the Power BI service:

Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of real-time streaming datasets in Power BI. This feature set allows users to easily stream data into Power BI via the REST APIs, Azure Stream Analytics, and PubNub, and to see that data instantly light on their dashboards.

Today, I am happy to announce an exciting new update to the Power BI connector for Microsoft Flow. Coming hot on the heels of our data alert Flow trigger, we have added a new action which pushes rows of data to a Power BI streaming dataset.

Today, I am happy to announce public preview of email subscriptions for report pages. This new feature allows you to subscribe to emails of the report pages that matter most to you, with just a few clicks. Once you’re subscribed, Power BI will regularly send screenshots of that report page directly to your inbox. The image in your inbox will show up exactly as it does in Power BI, and include a link to the report where you can drill into any interesting findings. Thanks to email subscriptions, it’s never been so easy to stay up-to-date about the data that matter most.

Today, I am happy to announce that Azure Stream Analytics jobs will be able to output to Power BI streaming datasets. In turn, you will be able to create streaming tiles based on Stream Analytics output. This new functionality will enable the top feature requests that we’ve received for Stream Analytics outputs, including…

Last month, we released a set of features in preview designed to make it easier than ever to display real-time streaming data in your Power BI dashboards. Today, I want to show you just how easy this can be!